The PowerEdge R510 was designed to meet the needs of many IT environments. Available with advanced systems management capabilities, a short and dense 24-inch chassis, high availability and redundancy...
Dell 2 New Technologies A number of new technologies have been incorporated into the PowerEdge R510 product, including: • Intel 5500 chipset + Intel Xeon 5500 series processor (new Intel architecture) • PCIe Generation 2 • DDR3 Memory Technology (Memory RAS feature—mirroring) •...
Dell 2.1.2 Intel 5500 Chipset Although the chipset supports up to 18 DIMMs, the PowerEdge R510 is designed with 8 DIMM slots. For more information on the Intel 5500 chipset, see Section 8, Chipset. 2.1.3 PCIe Generation 2 PCIe Gen 2 provides the next generation of I/O bandwidth to the system. PCIe Gen2 doubles the signaling bit rate of each lane from 2.5 Gb/s to 5 Gb/s.
Dell 3 System Overview PowerEdge R510 provides a value 2S 2U server, with maximized storage capacity, high performance, simplified management, and an affordable price. Table 2. Product Features Summary PowerEdge R510–4 drives PowerEdge R510–8 drives Chipset Intel® 5500 chipset (Intel 5500 chipset 24 + ICH10R) Intel®...
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146GB 300GB HDD/SSD 2.5" (in hard drive carrier through conversion kit) 25GB SATA SSD 50GB SATA SSD 100GB SATA SSD (Available in January 2010) Media Bay 1x slim ODD RMSD DVD-ROM DVD+/-RW USB DVD-ROM USB FDD PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
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Intel Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter Port Intel Gigabit ET Quad-Port Server Adapter InfiniBand® Mellanox® ConnectX™ IB HCA Card, Dual Port 20Gb/s InfiniBand, wth PCIe Gen2, PCIe 2.0 x8 5.0GT/s, MemFree, tall bracket, RoHS (R5) Compliant QLogic® Pathscale® DDR PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
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VMware® vSphere™ Version 4.0 VMware® Virtual Infrastructure Version 3.5 Update 4 (Classic version is DIB; embedded version can be download from VMware website and installed on hard drive. Supported for PowerEdge R510–4 and PowerEdge R510–8.) Citrix® XenServer™ Enterprise 5.5 HPCC: Microsoft®...
Dell 4 Mechanical 4.1 Chassis Description PowerEdge R510 chassis is a 2U rack system. The chassis is not swappable. Supported configurations are detailed in Table 3. Table 3. Supported Chassis Configurations 4-HDD Configuration 8-HDD Configuration 5 x cabled 3.5” HDD bay 8 x hot-swap 3.5”...
Dell 4.3 Front Panel View and Features Figure 4. PowerEdge R510–4 HDD Configuration Figure 5. PowerEdge R510–8 HDD Configuration 4.3.1 NMI Button The Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) button can be accessed through a pin hole with a thin object (e.g., the end of a paperclip).
LED’s, etc.). 4.3.5 USB Connectors USB connectors are used to attach USB-compliant devices such as keyboards, mice, storage keys, and peripherals to the system. All PowerEdge systems have at least 2 front-accessible USB 2.0 compliant ports PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
4.3.7 Hard Drive Activity LED The PowerEdge R510 systems have a single (common) green hard drive activity LED that lights when the system is accessing data on the drive. These systems do not have Status LEDs.
Dell 4.4 Back Panel View and Features Figure 8. R510 with Non-Redundant Power Supply for PowerEdge R510-4 ONLY Figure 9. With Redundant Power Supply for PowerEdge R510-8 Figure 10. Non-redundant Power Supply Option on PowerEdge R510-8 PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Replace the power supply that has the flashing indicator with a power supply that matches the capacity of the other installed power supply. 4.5 Side Views and Features Figure 12. Left Side View Figure 13. Right Side View PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Full extension required (to allow serviceability of key internal components) Cable Management Arm (CMA) Dell provides shoulder nut type and location to ODM fit with 11G value rail Support for status indicator cable To be shipped separately from rail kit If sliding rails are supported, then require CMA Table 9.
• The Rail Depth number represents the minimum depth of the rail when the rear bracket is positioned all the way forward. 4.8 Rail View Figure 18. R510 Sliding Rails without CMA PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
PowerEdge R510-4 and PowerEdge R510-8 have the same fan module. Figure 22. Fan Module 4.9.2 Fan Location and Installation PowerEdge R510-4 has four fan modules (it does not have the fan circled in red as shown in Figure 23). PowerEdge R510-8 has five fan modules. PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
The bezel lock located on front of the bezel provides security for the system by preventing access to hard drives, optical drives, and the power button. 4.11.2 Hard Drive Security Hard drives are only accessible by unlocking and opening the bezel. PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
4.12 USB Key R510 supports 2 internal USB connectors that can be used for USB keys. The PowerEdge R510 (4 and 8) internal USB connectors are located at the front control board as shown in the following two figures (circled in red).
4.14 Field Replaceable Units (FRU) Parts available for field replacement include: • Backplane • • Processor • PERC Controller cards (S300) • Motherboard • • LCD control panel • LED control panel • iDRAC 6 Express PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
(through server management functions). The power system is compatible with industry standards, such as ACPI and Server 2000. For the 8 HDD configuration 1100W and 750W hot plug redundant PSUs, Dell offers two options: •...
Optimized thermal management makes PowerEdge R510 cool and quiet. Benefiting from a smart cooling thermal control algorithm, the PowerEdge R510 can keep both high performance and good acoustics across a wide range of ambient temperatures (10 °C – 35 °C). In addition, the PowerEdge R510 provides cooling efficiency that saves energy.
Prominent tone: Criteria of D.5 and D.8 of ECMA-74 9th ed. (2005) are followed to determine if discrete tones are prominent. The system is placed in a rack with its bottom at 75 cm from the floor. The acoustic transducer is at front bystander position, ref ISO7779 (1999) Section 8.6.2. PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Gigatranfers per second (GT/s), referring to a number of data transfers or operations. Turbo: Feature that increases the speed of the processor on demand (from OS) if the CPU is operating below power/thermal specifications. HT: Intel Hyper-threading technology. PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
16GB, DDR3 RDIMM, 1066 w/ECC (Available in January 2010) 7.3 Mirroring In mirroring mode, the PowerEdge R510 has identical memory configuration in Channel_0 and Channel_1; it does not have memory in Channel_3. When mirroring mode is enabled, usable memory capacity is half of the physical memory installed.
8 Chipset 8.1 Overview The PowerEdge R510 motherboard incorporates the Intel 5500 chipset-24D IOH from Intel to perform memory control, provide two QPI bus to two processors, and provide an ESI interface to the South Bridge chip. The memory interface is optimized for 800/1066/1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM memory with ECC when running with Intel 5500 Chipset-EP processors.
The ESI interface connects the Intel 5500 chipset MCH to the ICH10R. The ESI interface runs at 2 GB/s with a 100 MHz reference clock. 8.3 Intel ICH10R South Bridge The PowerEdge R510 planar incorporates the Intel ICH10R chip. The ICH10R is a highly integrated I/O controller. 8.3.1 DMI interface The DMI interface connects the ICH10R to the IOH.
This permits the BIOS to be upgraded in the field via a bootable device rather than by physically removing an EEPROM. The System BIOS, Video BIOS, server management, and PCI configuration are housed in this flash. The following table clarifies what is and is not supported by the PowerEdge R510 BIOS code. Table 13. BIOS Support...
Generic features have defined enable and status bits, but the functionality is not fully visible to the OS. Dell provides ASL code to handle the details of generic features, allowing the OS to intelligently communicate with system-specific hardware.
Enable OS DBPM Control (BIOS exposes all possible P states to OS) Memory frequency = Maximum Performance Fan algorithm = Power Active Power Enable Dell System DBPM (BIOS will not make all P states available to OS) Controller Memory frequency = Maximum Performance Fan algorithm = Power...
ACPI_TABLE_GUID. 9.4 Supported CPU ACPI States/Turbo Mode The Intel 5500 Chipset processor supports the following C-States: C0, C1, C1E, C3, and C6. The PowerEdge R510 supports all of the available C-States R510 supports the available P-States corresponding to the specific Intel 5500 Chipset processors as shown in Table 15.
(UEFI compatible) and the UEFI pre-boot applications. The PowerEdge R510 implementation is compliant with UEFI version 2.1. Interfaces are implemented in 64-bit processor mode. PowerEdge R510 runs UEFI over legacy BIOS. The system BIOS executes, initializing the system and configuring the hardware.
Dell 10 I/O Slots 10.1 Overview The PowerEdge R510 system provides two configurations for I/O slots: • Riser 1 (default offering): Three PCIe slots (x4, x4, x8 bandwidth; all w/ x8 slots) + One internal storage slot (x4 bandwidth w/ x8 slot for SAS or PERC integrated cards only) •...
Dell The lower power support on slots 1 and 4 is due to system thermal limitations • The PowerEdge R510 does not support hot-swapping of PCIe cards • 10.1.2 PCI Device Information IOH port 1, 2 (PCI Express Gen2 x4) – Broadcom BCM5716 Gigabit LOM •...
The lower power support on slot 2 is due to system thermal limitations instead of system power • requirements • The PowerEdge R510 does not support hot-swapping of PCIe cards 10.2.1 PCI Device information IOH port 1, 2 (PCI Express Gen2 x4) – Broadcom BCM5716 Gigabit LOM •...
8 Hard Drive Chassis: 8 x hot-swap 3.5” or 2.5” HDD (in hard drive carrier), support one slim ODD 11.2 Drives Refer to Table 2 for more information on available drives. Figure 33. 2.5” Drive in Hard Drive Carrier PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Dell 11.3 RAID Configurations Table 23. Raid Configurations for the PowerEdge R510-4 No Mixed (3.5" HDD PowerEdge R510-4 Factory Configuration ONLY) Type Name Description NCZCBL (recommended for hidden) No controller / No Hard Drive RAID MSTCBL No RAID (ICH) RAID...
Dell Table 24. Raid Configurations for the PowerEdge R510-8 No Mixed (Must be all 2.5" or 3.5" PowerEdge R510-8 Factory Configuration HDDs) Type Name Description (recommended No Hard Drive (controller required, PERC S300, SAS 6/iR, for hidden) PERC H200, PERC 6/i, PERC H700)
ASSR5/R10-X RAID5 + RAID10 (PERC 6/i, PERC H700) 4 + 4 11.4 Optical Drives R510 supports a SATA interface slim DVD-ROM or slim DVD+/-RW. Slim ODD option is available on 4-HDD and 8-HDD configuration chassis only. PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Dell 11.5 Tape Drives R510 does not support an internal backup device. Only external backup devices are supported. See Table 2 for more information. PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Dell 13 Operating Systems The following tables provide information on operating systems supported on the PowerEdge R510. Table 25. Microsoft Operating Systems Supported Operating Systems x86 or x64 Installation Factory Install Logo/Certification Standard Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium FI or DIB...
Download through Citrix (http://hcl.xensource.com/?sho (http://www.citrix.com/xe wall=no&subtab=systems) nserver/dell) Support for embedded Citrix XenServer By Citrix Enterprise 5.x (or later) Download through Citrix (http://hcl.xensource.com/?sho (http://www.citrix.com/xe wall=no&subtab=systems) nserver/dell) Support for Hyper–V Support for Hyper–V Server Download version (NFI, No DIB) PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
IT assets by building comprehensive IT management solutions. Combining Dell PowerEdge Servers with a wide selection of Dell-developed management solutions gives you choice and flexibility, so you can simplify and save in environments of any size. To help you meet your server performance demands, Dell offers Dell OpenManage™ systems management solutions for: •...
Express, this utility has limited functionality and offers OS install and diagnostics capabilities only. To access the Unified Server Configurator, press the <F10> key within 10 seconds of the Dell logo’s appearance during the system boot process. Current functionality enabled by the Unified Server Configurator is detailed in the following table.
Dedicated network interface Additionally, the iDRAC6 Enterprise can be upgraded by adding the vFlash Media card. This is a 1 GB Dell branded SD card that enables a persistent 256 or 512 MB virtual flash partition. A more detailed feature list for iDRAC6 Enterprise and vFlash is included in the following table.
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Real-time Power Graphing* Historical Power Counters* Logging Features System Event Log RAC Log Trace Log * BMC availability through OpenManage PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Dell 16 Peripherals 16.1 USB peripherals Optional External USB 1.44MB floppy drive (Dell no longer offers the USB floppy drive.) Optional External USB DVD-ROM 16.2 External Storage Refer to Table 2 for information on external storage. PowerEdge R510 Technical Guide...
Dell Appendix A. R510 Volatility Tables Table 31. PowerEdge R510 Volatility Non- Volatile Reference Volatile Designator Size Type Planar System BIOS SPI Flash Flash EEPROM (SPI interface) Configuration Data 512KB FLASH (EEPROM) iDRAC6 Controller ROM iDRAC6 controller RAM System CPLD...
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Dell Non- Volatile Reference Volatile Designator Size Type Control Panel Internal USB J_USBKEY (connector) J_USB3, License key hard set ROM or user J_USB4 User selectable choice Power Supply Varies by part Maximum supported Microcontroller number = 2MB per PSU. Embedded microcontroller flash...
Dell Table 32. Volatility: Data Writing and Purpose Can user programs or Purpose? operating system write data to it during normal operation? Planar System BIOS SPI Boot Code, System Configuration Information, EUFI Flash environment LOM Configuration LAN on Motherboard configuration and firmware...
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Dell Can user programs or Purpose? operating system write data to it during normal operation? Backplane (X8) Storage Controller Backplane firmware (HDD status, etc.) Processor Control Panel Internal USB Yes, as allowed by OS Normal usage is read-only software license key, but not...
Dell Table 33. Methodology for Data Input to Memory How is data input to this memory? Planar System BIOS SPI Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program Flash which is executed by booting up the system from a floppy or OS-based executable containing the firmware file and the loader.
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Dell How is data input to this memory? lifecycle log is automatically updated by the iDRAC as various system component firmware, hardware, and software versions are changed. Trusted Platform Module Using TPM-enabled operating systems Chipset CMOS BIOS control only with input such as BIOS F2 menu user configuration settings (e.g.,...
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Dell SAS 6/iR Integrated Controller Loading flash memory requires a vendor-provided firmware file and loader program which Configuration is executed by booting the system from a floppy or OS-based executable (DUPs, Unified Data Server Configurator) containing the firmware file and the loader. Storage adapters loaded with bad firmware will not provide storage controller behavior.
Dell Table 34. Methodology for Memory Protection and Clearing How is this memory write protected? How is the memory cleared? Planar System BIOS SPI Not possible with any utilities or applications and system is not Flash Software write protected functional if corrupted/removed.
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Dell How is this memory write protected? How is the memory cleared? Chipset CMOS Planar NVRAM_CLR jumper or Remove AC cord, remove cover, remove coin cell battery. Wait for 30 seconds, replace battery, cover and then AC cord. N/A - BIOS only control...
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Dell How is this memory write protected? How is the memory cleared? SAS 6/iR Integrated Controller Write control access by Configuration Data Storage Controller firmware N/A - not in system clearable Protected in that no iDRAC embedded firmware writes to this device.